Less Toxicity by Optimizing Chemotherapy, but Not by Addition of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor in Children and Adolescents With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Results of AML-BFM 98 Type I ...

Blastoma is a type of cancer that occurs in the developing cells of a fetus or child. It typically affects children rather than adults. There are many types of blastoma. They can affect different ...

A stage IIIB pulmonary blastoma was diagnosed in a 42-year-old man with a 30-pack-year history of smoking. Chest x-ray revealed a 13.5 x 13 cm mediastinal mass, and a CT-guided biopsy showed a tumor ...

New research demonstrates the first definitive link between mutations in the gene DICER1 and cancer. By studying the patterns of DNA from 11 families with an unusual predisposition to the rare ...

The use of a multi-agent chemotherapy regimen resulted in improved outcomes in a group of children with pleuropulmonary blastoma, a rare form of lung cancer, when compared with other regimens.

Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a rare childhood cancer that occurs in the lungs or their lining. Its exact prevalence is unknown. There are three forms of the disease, with type I taking the form ...

Here, we describe a 3-month-old girl with a lung tumor that we initially reported as a pulmonary blastoma (Figure 1A). 3 Our data indicated that this tumor was distinct from both pulmonary blastoma ...